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Sino- Iran Proposed Accord: China’s Expansionism Continues
August 19, 2020 Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM Article

Introduction Sometime back there was a news item that Iran has decided to undertake construction of the Chabahar- Zahedan Railway Line on its own. The reason given was that India who was earlier building that Railway line was going slow on ....

International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Climate Change

Tags : Article , India , China , PLA Navy , JCPOA , USA , Chabahar , IRGC , Zahedan , railway line , Khomeini
Renewable Energy is the Way Forward
December 19, 2019 Rajesh Singh Article

In a span of just seven days recently, two varying bits of information emerged on the climate change front for India. The first is that India lost 2,018 lives in 2018 due to the fallout of this crisis. And the second is that the country entered the l....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Climate Change

Tags : Article , Climate change and India , looming climatic disaster , Resort to renewable energy
Air Defence Cover for Mechanised Forces: The Bigger Picture
July 10, 2019 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The Event On 10 May 2019, it was reported in the media that India had finally selected the South Korean made Hanwha K 30 Biho (Flying Tiger), a highly mobile short range Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) weapon system, to protect its for....

Defence , Climate Change

Tags : Article
विश्व पर्यावरण दिवस – भारत को खराब भूमि और बंजर भूमि की पारिस्थितिक बहाली के लिए शुरू करना चाहिए राष्ट्रीय अभियान
July 24, 2018 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

भारत इस वर्ष 43वें संयुक्त राष्ट्र विश्व पर्यावरण दिवस की मेजबानी कर रहा है, जो 5 जून को मनाया जात�....

Climate Change

Tags : Hindi , Article , पर्यावरण दिवस , प्लास्टिक प्रदूषण
World Environment Day - India should Launch a National Mission for Ecological Restoration of Degraded Lands and Wastelands
June 05, 2018 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

This year India is hosting the 43rd edition of the UN World Environment Day, celebrated on the 5th of June, this time the theme being “Beat the Plastic Pollution”. In 2015, over 320 million ton of plastic waste was produced....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change

Tags : Commentary , World Environment Day , environmental degradation , nature restoration
Indo-US Cooperation and Perspectives on Climate Change
January 22, 2015 Dr Hishmi Jamil Husain

Climate change is an environmental problem that has various environmental, social and economic dimensions. Nations and citizens must determine how they can limit their own contributions to the negative impacts of climate change. India is one of the v....

National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Climate Change
Delhi’s Craven Policy on Syria
July 24, 2012 Amb Kanwal Sibal

The position India is taking on the unfolding Syrian crisis does not do honour to our diplomacy. We supported last week the western resolution providing for sanctions on Syria under Chapter V11 of the UN Charter unless its government effectively end....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Climate Change , West Asia
The Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan of 11th March 2011: A Wake up Call for India
April 05, 2011 General NC Vij, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM

On 11th Mar 11 literally the hell struck the north eastern coastal areas of Japan in the form of a devastating earthquake of 9 magnitude which triggered a powerful tsunami with 10 meter high waves which travelled 10 km inland at jet speed. It has lef....

National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change
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